Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finally there is much that is both amusing and pleasant, "Jeremiah Marston--Freshman", a farce of the Beerhohm variety, "Purple Plush" by Donald Gibbs, who always enjoys himself and usually amuses others. Hollander's Aven "Simple", and the book reviews, which are excellent, especialy Howe's remarks concerning "Chimes" by Robert Herrick...
...competitions which last approximately 11 weeks are admittedly strenuous but absorbing and pleasant in most of their aspects. AT the end of this period those men who are elected to the Board of Editors will have the opportunity of entering further competitions for positions as officers of the CRIMSON. Previous experience, either in college or in school newspaper work is unnecessary for the student who wishes to enter one of these competitions, which offer work of a varied nature. In all departments candidates are from the start given responsible work and a free rein to their individual talents and ingenuity...
Like all U. S. voyagers in England, he enjoyed the quiet, the courtesy, the fine products of the English specialty shop. These, the result of intense retail competition, were typical of 19th Century British trade. It was pleasant to shop in them. But, to the mind of Mr. Selfridge, restless in retirement, they seemed expensive to operate, each with its separate overhead charges. The U. S. department store, while more raucous, was more economical and, too, more convenient for customers. It should be possible to merge the advantages of both the British and the U. S. systems of retailing...
...conferees, unwilling to accept Reservation Five as it stands, and deeming it unwise to adopt Dr. Undén's scarcely tactful formula, adjourned after announcing that they accepted the U. S. reservations "in principle," i. e., a pleasant way of announcing nothing...
...first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good and bad characteristics, actions of strength and weakness, conflicting motives, are balanced upon each of them like saddlebags on pack-mules-firmly, evenly, impartially. And not even the less pleasant Mr. Dreiser has more faithfully or thoroughly described an everyday U. S. scene. It is powerful, compelling reading, a book for a high place in U. S. literature. It is particularly welcome in that Dorothy Canfield is not among those realists who feel obliged to abandon sound prose...